Odeur 71
Odeur 71 belongs to Comme des Garçons' radical rejection of conventional perfumery.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Moss
- Incense
- Bay Leaf
- Hyacinth
- White Pepper
- Bamboo
By the editors · 2 min readOdeur 71 belongs to Comme des Garçons' radical rejection of conventional perfumery. Where a traditional fragrance announces its notes, Odeur 71 describes industrial sensations: hot metal, photocopier toner, freshly welded aluminium, toaster coils. Martine Pallix built this from actual materials — bamboo, bay leaf, hyacinth, white pepper, incense, moss — chosen not for their inherent beauty but for their capacity to evoke the smell of a city at work.
The result is neither pleasant nor unpleasant in the conventional sense; it's precise, cerebral, deliberately defamiliarising. Incense and moss ground things slightly, hyacinth adds an unexpected floral clean. A fragrance designed to make you think about what fragrance is rather than how it smells — which makes it one of the most intellectually honest releases of its decade.
Scent twins
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